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I'm absolutely sure I experience "lonely mouth", but that's what I mentally refer to a "desire to eat" vs. "hunger". My desire to eat is nearly unlimited. I'll literally be leaving a restaurant and start thinking about the next flavor palette to send to my tongue.
No, the hunger I'm currently having problems with is coming from my guts, a tightness or emptiness usually just below the sternum (or as low as my innie), sometimes but not always accompanied by noise that while generally internal-only is sometime externally audible.
I can ignore it. I often initially choose to quiet it through consuming water or other zero-calorie fluids, but when it doesn't go away within a few minutes of fluid consumption, that approach isn't going to work. I can just ignore/suffer it; I have done 72-hour fasting before, but I found it neither enjoyable nor very productive (didn't seem to affect weight loss rate overall). After a while it does fail to distract me as much, but then comes back at irregular intervals.
I know there's probably a happy medium out there. And, it's even possible I don't need to lose quite as much weight as I think. But, I'd really like to have visible abs -- I can do 100 body-weight sit-ups, or 190lb. sitting abdominal crunches, but I still have a fat cap that hides whatever muscles are there.